CAIRO: Eight Egyptian fishermen drowned when their boat capsized off the Libyan coast, an Egyptian security official told AFP on Friday.
The small fishing boat had left the Egyptian port town of Al-Salloum near the border with Libya on Thursday when it capsized due to bad weather and high waters, the official said.
Eight people died. One person survived after being pulled out of the water by the crew of another boat, the official said.
The accident happened in Libyan waters and the survivor was taken to Al-Salloum, he said.
Hundreds of people, mainly African and Arab migrants trying to get to Europe, have died off the Mediterranean coast in bad weather. -AFP
